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The beginning of the concept album is this Corporate Head overlooking all his 'ants': the common man of the world. From high above, humans look like busy ants, scurrying around - never truly talking to one another; all to get the job done. We seek to please those with power (the 'queen ant') to get the things we want (the tan, the fuck, the promotion). The 3rd stanza voices the questioning of 'if the queen cannot save us, will all our material goods?'

Interestingly, as an introduction, the song foreshadows the Corporate Head's death (Comes stomping down on you at once/Like a bullet to the brain. -> See Harry Frazee and For a Dreamer). And obviously there is some pretty awesome ant/human analogies throughout this song ('carry 10 their weight');

Art: I'm thinking about scanning the picture, but the inside pamphlet includes a picture of a silhouette on top of a building with more shadows climbing up like ants.

General CommentThis song is really good it was one of my favorites on the album. I think its mainly describing a head honcho at some coporation that looks at his employess as ants. Seeing as he watches everything he built get swarmed by the "ants" resembling how he controls them. This is described when it says "They'll eat what's not on their plate if it means a full meal." All this aside the invesotrs and employers are pawns and he uses their greed to get what he wants and also end peoples lives in his so called society

General CommentIf you go to their bio at the fueled by ramen site they say that a lot of the songs on the album were them mentioning how so many people only chase after money and end up leaving everything behind, including their dreams. They were commenting on the fact that they had done just the opposite and now in the end have come out better because they changed their dreams. So they're basically mocking all the Wall Street 'ants'

General CommentI'm not sure if the band intended for me to feel this way, but I take it as a metaphor for human behavior. We are essentially ants, whether we realize it or not, especially in the sense that we are greedy and all just go along doing out assigned jobs to keep the world turning.

The guy walking is a deity, kind of. In the sense that he is larger than life (from an ants perspective).

If we are like Gods to ants, then what are our Gods? Are we merely ants?